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by bryanh 13y ago
It is just a pattern around making traditional webhooks another resource on your existing REST API so you can programmatically control subscriptions/callbacks/webhooks/etc. instead of asking users to copy-paste URLs.
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by bryanh 13y ago
We also wrote a quick drop-in Django application [0] (that plugs right into TastyPie if you have an API built on it) . We also have a sample CRM with a live API running [1]. Our friends at NetEngine wrote a sample Rails app [2], and our ver
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by bryanh 13y ago
Recently got a Vastrm hoodie and it is really nice. It certainly feels great and fits great. I'll likely wear it a ton, not sure why there is such negativity in this thread.
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Parameterized Docker Containers(blog.james-carr.org)
31 points by bryanh 13y ago|3 comments
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by bryanh 13y ago
Hey Barton! Zapier co-founder here, is there anything we could do when we refer customers to Matchist that would help you spec out these integrations? We've found Matchist to be quite nice when customers know what they want, but I&#x27
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by bryanh 13y ago
It applies to their APIs specifically. It is realtime within ~5 minutes.
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by bryanh 13y ago
It seems a bit out of the ordinary, but we've found ElasticSearch + facets to be wonderful ways to consume time series data. You can dump in a bunch of information about an event (for example, unix timestamp or even response time in
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by bryanh 13y ago
https://github.com/html5lib/html5lib-python/issues/105 seems to imply that such a thing is possible. I am unsure about the requirement for lxml. I was under the impression that lxml is an optional walker, the
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by bryanh 13y ago
I would be quite interested in Gumbo as the backend to the awesome pure Python but otherwise rather-slow https://github.com/html5lib/html5lib-python , which actually has great whitelisting/cleaning facilities but i
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Google Open-Sources Gumbo: C Library for Parsing HTML5(github.com)
262 points by bryanh 13y ago|59 comments
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by bryanh 13y ago
Great suggestion!
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by bryanh 13y ago
This comment, though polite, is quite dismissive of their accomplishment. I think you read the post and wrote your comment as if the $5/mo was the goal. Going from 0-$5k/mo is a huge step towards their very clear goal of buildin
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by bryanh 13y ago
We launched our status board for exactly this reason, to get notified of random disruptions (specifically API disruptions). You can even chose your flavor, we support email, SMS, IM, webhooks, etc... It sure beats relying on HN or random fa
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by bryanh 13y ago
I know it sucks, but in the meantime have you considered slowing those sync tasks down if the user's "last activity" timestamp is older than a few minutes? You might even be able to make it sync faster for active users with
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by bryanh 13y ago
Very nice! We wrote a blog post on doing this with Zapier: https://zapier.com/blog/the-ultimate-guide-to-selling-downlo... except you can mix and match any payment, storage and email/notification system and start
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by bryanh 13y ago
Just Google the article title and click the first link, they allow referrers.
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by bryanh 13y ago
Excellent job. Wonderful tool. Do you have plans to monetize? (ebook ALA Learn Regex the Hard Way, a mac desktop tool, editor plugins, etc...)
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by bryanh 13y ago
I saw that. I still think it needs a lot of simplification. But don't let me rain on your parade, the app is done very well so far. You are clearly good hackers working on a real problem, so it will get sussed out in time I expect. I m
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by bryanh 13y ago
Hey guys! I built something like this to scratch an itch at Zapier (both personally and for a few of our customers). I've mulled over releasing it someday for fun. This is a real need because (frighteningly?) a majority of the business
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by bryanh 13y ago
A safe pattern for this without the None check is keyword expansion which will define defaults when a function is called. def foo(**kwargs): numbers = kwargs.pop('numbers', []) numbers.append(9) print
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by bryanh 13y ago
High quality close up photo from https://path.com/p/1lwrZb : https://pathakacdn-a.akamaihd.net/photos2/f36a5729-6db7-40db...
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by bryanh 13y ago
Right now, VCs often knowingly invest too much money at the series A stage. They do it because they feel they need to get a big chunk of each series A company to compensate for the opportunity cost of the board seat it
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by bryanh 13y ago
Ah, we find the complete opposite. One serendipitous thing we've discovered while using and working on Zapier is that the tool itself allows you to use whatever your best in class application is for the task at hand, regardless of wh
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by bryanh 13y ago
Indeed, I misspoke and meant to say tokens/refresh tokens. A similar thing happened for Evernote a while back and knocked down all tokens and required re-authentication across the board.
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by bryanh 13y ago
Was api.linkedin.com compromised/hijacked? If so, that means they'll need to reset a lot of OAuth token/secrets which will be very painful indeed (worse than just a site-wide session reset).
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by bryanh 13y ago
That is wildly interesting. If you could swing it, you should write up a full post about what that your Rails app looks like after 7 years in production.
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by bryanh 13y ago
I really encourage everyone to just give this DB a spin, with homebrew or their Ubuntu PPA it is a dead simple install process. I guarantee that the first touch experience will be among the best DB experiences you've had. Their built-
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by bryanh 13y ago
If I were guessing (and I am): probably not, but later stage investors usually want their ~10-20% of the company in a round. After a string of "no, we don't need that $YYm++", the valuation (the only truly negotiable number i
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Mix and Match Stripe/PayPal, Dropbox/S3, Gmail/Mailgun to Sell Files(zapier.com)
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by bryanh 13y ago
Interesting! I can imagine some really cool uses, especially if it could do "Hallmark" style thank you cards. Otherwise, bulk mailer type letters seems like the first (and limited to me at least) use.

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